load on startup

[Alister Pate]

Hi guys.
My current "issue" is how to configure tomcat 4.1 to run an application (ie a servlet) on startup. Is there an easy way to do this? I've scanned the documentation (briefly) but without a lot of success.
Alister

[Mike Curwen]

It's part of the servlet declaration in web.xml

<servlet>
<servlet-name>Foo</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.myco.foo.Translator2</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>0</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

A non-null value for load-on-startup will ensure your servlet loads, and if order is important, it will load them in the numerical order of the load-on-startup elements.

[Alister Pate]

Thanks for that.